First, you must "publish" your course before students will see it on their own Canvas. To do this in Canvas...
* On the left, click "Dashboard" and click on the box for the course you want to publish
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On the right side Choose Home Page and I prefer to select syllabus or Announcements. At this point you can also edit your syllabus and 'update' it.
* Then on the right side, if the course has been red box "Unpublished", you can now click "Publish" and it should then go green "Published"
* It should now be visible to your students.
* To add web pages to your course.... Dashboard / YourCourse / Settings / Apps / ReDirect and copy/paste URL
* Making quizzes in Canvas (Mult Choice)
* To send email with attachments in Canvas: I just use "Announcements" now. That should auto send emails to students of your "Announcement".
To have students able to access files needed for assignments, on the left side click on 'Files' and upload the files. Then, when editing assignments, you can just link to the file from within Canvas.
to give just one student an extra attempt at an assignment, you can't do that normally. Instead, click on the assignment, then click on right side 'moderate' and it'll give you a list of students. click on the ones you want and give extra attempt and time.
To copy content from one course into another, go to the course you want to import into, and at top left find 'import content' and be sure you just ask for 'selected content' and not the entire course (usually anyway). It'll then show up in 'imported content' and you have to manually move it to the proper assignment section, like 'quizzes' or 'final' or 'extra credit' or whatever.
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We don't use BigBlueButton any more, instead ConferZoom. But FYI here's what I had for BBB:
BigBlueButton is the Conference app in Canvas. It works fine on laptops and desktops, but not as well on mobile devices.
* Sharing your Screen in BigBlueButton YouTube 4 min
If students are going to follow your lectures on their phones, the advice is to get a different browser, the Puffin Browser.
*First add/install the Puffin Browser on your device. It can be found in both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. The links are below:
* Starting and using ConferZoom (but for Cerritos College) and for Cabrillo
Adding a Zoom Meeting within Canvas (not recommended)
* Instead of using the imbedded BigBlueButton (BBB) software inside Canvas, you can link to a zoom session. However, the zoom page is then smaller as it's within the Canvas surroundings. I think it may be better, easier to just do a zoom session entirely outside of Canvas. If Canvas - use BBB, if Zoom, just create the meeting, mail the invitation link to everyone, and then do the meeting entirely outside Canvas, and record it so students can watch it whenever they want if there's no imbedded quiz.
Using Canvas Conference with your students and then show PowerPoints
* Log into Canvas on your laptop
* Left side click Dashboard
* Click on the desired course box
* Click on Conferences
* Click the blue box + Conference
* Populate the boxes. Best to do 'no time limit' and be sure if you want to record it, that you 'enable recording'. Default is 'all course members' are invited
* turn your speaker vol to zero to avoid feedback.
* click on lower left + symbol to get to upload Presentation
* In the box, at middle, click on "browse for files" and find your PDF version of your PowerPoint (not the PPT itself, which is way too slow to upload and may format wrong).
* then click at top of page Upload
. It'll take a few minutes. Then, repeat if you're going to do other PDF's
* To switch between PPT's go back to the + icon and click inside the empty circle on the right side of the PPT title, then Upload. This time it'll upload
* When you're done, mute your mic and then in the 3 dots at upper right is the option to 'end meeting' and you click that
* Then it'll take you back to the main Canvas page for this course, and you click on conferences and again click end meeting. (I don't know why it needs to be told twice). But after ending the second time it'll know to convert the recording to saved and students and you can see it in the conferences section as a "concluded meeting" with a meeting link. It'll take time, like an hour or more.
However, the instructions below might also be of some use so I'll not delete here...
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Inbox
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top left see box All Courses and change to Fav Course
-- middle top right, see pen/paper icon and click to start a new message,
-- Click "To" and select who gets it
-- In the pop up box, write your message, and then at lower left in that box click on the paper clip icon to attach file(s)
Good YouTubes and Other Places to Learn More
Instead Free Cam - unlimited recording. And another YouTube (6min) for using it. Good YouTube on how to edit in FreeCam
Using Conferences / BigBlueButton in Canvas Instructure (YouTube 12:46)
Student Use of Canvas Conference - BigBlueButton Overview for Students (YouTube 5:24)
Proctorio for quizzes on Canvas (YouTube)
How to Add a Zoom Meeting Link to Canvas (YouTube 2min) - this is good, but silent
Zoom integration in Canvas (but doesn't say how to get it on my menu, see "How to Add a Zoom Meeting..." above)
How Students Access a Canvas Conference (YouTube 3min)
For Instructor: How to Use BigBlueButton inside Canvas (YouTube 12min)
How to Use Canvas Conferences (YouTube 14min)
BigBlueButton Overview